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Season 2 - Episode 242 - Being able to pivot during uncertainty · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the porch because we are in the
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  middle. Well, actually, it's the
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  beginning, if I'm being very accurate, of the hurricane
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  coming across us and you can hear all of our frogs going
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  insane and it's pouring and it's pitch black and it shouldn't be
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  pitch black right now, but it is pitch black and creepy to see
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  how dark it is right now and. Somewhat exhilarating to hear
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  all the frogs having a party in the rain.
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  So we're shooting from the porch today, my friends.
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  So what does this all represent when these things happen?
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  Massive amount of uncertainty because you don't really know
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  the weather people they predict, they talk about what they think
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  is going to happen. But whenever the these storms
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  happen, whenever there's bands of hurricanes that are coming
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  across us and. You know, we're on the side of
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  it. And you know, I woke up this
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  morning, I I should say I was woken up this morning by my
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  phone screaming at me that we were in a flood alert, immediate
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  flood alert. And it was just that.
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  And at first I was so aggravated that that's driving my day that
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  way. And I thought to myself, well,
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  hang on. You know, they're doing their
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  job, and I'm grateful that they're doing their job, that
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  I'm hearing it no matter what. I got an alert, doesn't matter
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  if I need it or not. What matters is that I got the
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  alert and I can decide what to do with it.
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  And I started thinking about how, you know, this whole thing
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  affects human behavior. The 2nd we have something out of
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  the norm, what we have to do to change what we have to do to be
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  prepared. And some people adhere to it.
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  And some people. I appreciate it.
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  And some people absolutely hate it and freak out by it and don't
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  want to do anything. And you know, it got me thinking
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  about what I was going to talk to you guys about today, which
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  is the fact that you have to be like genuinely, you have to be
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  able to pivot genuinely, you have to be able to change your
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  approach. And when you can do that, you
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  can actually absorb anything. So once my phone went off and I
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  was irritated as hell. And the dog went vertical
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  because she was so upset. I said to myself, no, wait, this
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  is a gift because we have all recently seen situations where
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  they didn't get a warning and they were wiped out.
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  So I'm totally okay and and the minute I had that perspective,
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  especially if you think about the horrific heartbreaking fires
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  in Hawaii where they had no alerts of what was going on, the
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  second I thought of that I was like.
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  You can shut up now in my head. Look at what happened.
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  You got an alert, and even if it turns out to be nothing, you got
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  the alert. And so I went from irritated,
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  probably angry, to gratitude in a heartbeat.
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  And the that ability to be able to pivot and to be able to find
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  the gift in it was huge. So that's what this is about
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  being able to recognize. It is so incredibly important to
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  figure out your pivots, how you can do it quickly, what you can
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  do just like me deciding, OK, I'm not going to go out and
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  shoot with the chickens today. Today we're shooting with the
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  frogs because that's the beauty of living on the farm.
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  I can shoot and cover many different things when I choose
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  to. It it it, it's all about the
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  pivot, all about the choice. And I'm not going to let this
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  affect what I do for all of you, so.
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  Looking at your life in general and saying how often do I pivot
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  well or do I try to hang on to what is not working.
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  That's probably the hardest part for I think most of us is
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  hanging on to what we think should be happening instead of
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  focusing on what is happening and what we need to do in those
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  moments. That's the part that's so
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  incredibly dynamic and. It moves constantly, and you
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  have to be able to move with it. You have to be just as dynamic
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  as the situations. You have to be able to pivot
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  just as much as the situation pivots, and if you're not
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  willing to pivot, you will suffer the consequences.
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  It's just a simple fact. Now, the consequences can be
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  great sometimes, and the consequences can be harsh
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  sometimes, but it's really. Position of how you interpret
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  it. Know if you can hear that
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  Thunder rolling in, but it's loud, gosh, it's loud, loud,
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  just as loud as the frogs. And it it gives you that
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  ability. When you're able to pivot like
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  that, when you're able to shift your focus, your attention, your
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  intention, it gives you the position of being in the
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  driver's seat again. It stops you from.
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  Rolling every issue into one big anxiety ball and trying to solve
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  a problem with a driver and emotional driver that is ill
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  equipped and ineffective. So I'm going to challenge you
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  guys to go off and think about the fact that you have this
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  ability. It's in you.
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  Every one of us has this ability within us.
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  We just have to cultivate it into something.
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  That ability to be able to pivot and that ability to be able to
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  recalibrate ourselves and to say, OK, I'm going to redirect
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  myself and be able to ride these waves, ride out this storm, or
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  ride this greatness for the best that it can be.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a very blessed day.
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  And wherever you are, stay dry. I know I'm going to try to work
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  on that today and keep the girls dry as well in the chicken coop.
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  And we will see you tomorrow from there.
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  Have a blessed day. Bye.